The deaf sue movie theaters for 'equal access'

Published 6:29 am, Thursday, August 1, 2013

A group of deaf people in Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against a movie theater chain for not doing enough to make films accessible to everyone.

For most of us, going to the movies isn't difficult.

But it was for Harvey Corson. He is deaf. Speaking through a translator, he says he tried to see a film earlier this month with some friends, but couldn't.

"We asked for captioning devices and he said OK, and he looked around and he informed us that they didn't have any captioning device," said Corson.

The theater he tried to go to is Palace 17 in Hartford, owned by Bow-Tie Cinemas. The company has nine other theaters in the state including ones in Trumbull, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford, Westport and Wilton.